Recognising the voice as the future

Umesh Sachdev, CEO, Uniphore Software Systems.- Photo : Bijoy Ghosh Uniphore’s CEO says software built around speech will change the face of technology : It was in 2007 that Umesh Sachdev struck upon the idea that took over his life. “If voice could be used to communicate with machines, we would solve massive problems. That’s when we started building speech recognition and artificial intelligence based software products, which have today become Uniphore,” said Mr. Sachdev, Uniphore’s co-founder and CEO who recently made it to Time Magazine ’s 2016 list of 10 millennials changing the world. After Mr. Sachdev and his co-founder Ravi Saraogi completed Computer Science engineering, they got onto the entrepreneurial stride and conceptualised the speech recognition software. The idea was to reach millions of users who were not…